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Kahlenberg in The New York Times: What Happens if ‘Harvard Is Not Harvard’?

  • June 12, 2025
  • Richard D. Kahlenberg

“Trump has pulled off something I thought I’d never see, which is he made Harvard look sympathetic,” said Richard D. Kahlenberg, a Harvard critic who supports the idea of giving admissions preferences to students with lower family incomes. […]

Mr. Kahlenberg said his “big fear” was that Harvard might scale back on social mobility efforts and seek to admit more students whose families could pay full freight, nearly $87,000 a year for undergraduates, including room and board.

Read more in The New York Times.

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